A powerful winter storm drenches Southern California overnight.
More rain is possible over the weekend, but nothing to match the severity of Thursday's conditions. More rain was in the forecast early next week, with a chance ofTemperatures will remain about six degrees cooler than normal through the weekend.On New Year's Eve, much of the state was drenched in heavy rain causing floods that killed one person and damaged a levee system in Sacramento County.
The National Weather Service is predicting up to 6 inches of rain in San Francisco with winds of speeds up to 30 mph with gusts of 60 mph. City officials had distributed 8,500 sandbags as of Tuesday, asking residents to only get them if they have experienced flooding in the past. Tink Troy, who lives in South San Francisco, picked up some sandbags from the city's public works department on Tuesday.Nearly 98 percent of the state remained in drought at the end of December. More than 80 percent of the state was in severe drought, the third most severe category in the weekly Drought Monitor report.
California has spent most of the last 15 years in drought conditions. The current three-year dry spell included one of the driest late winters on record.
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